Spotted in a recent issue of EW by eagle-eyed tifaux reader Nora:

“I TiVo a lot of shows on MTV—stuff like My Super Sweet 16 that’s jaw-dropping and mind-numbing—and I’ll watch it on weekends. Now I like Tiara Girls. Oh, my God. On the 2^nd season of My Super Sweet 16, all the really horrible girls had seen the 1^st season and were trying to top them in horribleness.  On Tiara Girls, there’s a fresh level of horror.” ~Anderson Cooper

1. Dan, how did you miss this in your latest roundup of All Things Gay?

2. Just when I thought I couldn't love the coop any more!!

Just in case your laptop ate that spreadsheet log you were keeping on all of Jack Bauer's kills, someone has compiled each and every one into a cheery and user-friendly website, complete with (a) name of victim (b) type of weapon and (c) video and JPEG evidence of the grizzly deaths! Hooray! It's like christmas!

 The only reason you are conscious right now is because jack bauer does not feel like carrying you.

I'm out of the country this week, so I may be posting less than usual. There has been very little television watching, partly because this is my vacation and I'm thousands of miles from home and it's time to get some culture and pay attention to people, dammit, and also partly because European TV is all flickery.

I have no doubt, though, that my familiarity with television will someday come in handy in my world travels. Along with movies, it's our most popular export.

Recently some friends of mine (apologies to Sarah, Jen, and Megan for any inaccuracies in this stolen story) were saved from what sounds like almost certain death in Morocco — no stamp in their passport, abandoned dock in the middle of the night, sketchy people all around — by a kindly young Muslim woman. She took them in, fed them, housed them, got that pesky stamp, even bartered for them in the local market.

Sarah mentioned that she was from New York, and the subject of Sex and the City came up. Keep in mind, this woman was a devout Muslim. Was life really like that show? she wanted to know. Not really, Sarah said. The characters are exaggerated, especially Samantha.

"Ah yes," said the Muslim woman. "But we all have a little bit of Samantha in us, don't we?"